The Fifth Sally

Daniel Keyes

The powerful moving and turbulent novel of Sally Porter and the multiple personalities she has no idea she lives with... From the award-winning bestselling author of FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON: 'Heartbreaking and utterly completely brilliant' GUARDIAN

Sally Porter is perfectly 'ordinary'. A waitress divorcee and loner in the great city. But though she is unaware of it she is also four other quite different people: Nola the cold independent artist who has a studio in Greenwich Village; Derry the happy-go-lucky tomboy; Bella the highly-sexed live wire with a talent for singing and dancing; and finally Jinx the hate-filled killer.

Whenever events put too much of a strain on Sally Porter she feels a headache and a blackout coming on - and a new character takes over. If there is a man to be fascinated she will become Bella. If there is an intellectual problem she will become Nola. And - as happens in the opening scene of the novel - if there is a rapist to be dealt with she becomes the vicious Jinx.

It is the task of the wise and patient psychiatrist Dr. Roger Ash - a man who nevertheless has severe problems of his own - to deal with this case of multiple personality and through painstaking therapy to try to fuse the four disparate personalities into "the fifth Sally."

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